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The Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR) has cautioned against the renewed disagreement betwixt the residents of Issele-Azagba and Okpanam pursuing an alleged amerciable bound accommodation betwixt the 2 communities.
In a connection issued successful Warri, the CDHR nationalist president, Dr Kehinde Taiga, condemned the move, saying that the accommodation was unconstitutional and unlawful, informing that it could spark communal unrest and permission families displaced.
He disclosed that a alleged consent judgement being utilized to backmost the accommodation was a fraudulent quality that is already earlier a competent court, yet immoderate parties were resorting to “self-help,” which helium said undermines judicial authority.
“Local authorities chairmen person nary powerfulness nether Nigerian instrumentality to change boundaries. This reckless enactment is simply a look for crisis. The judiciary indispensable beryllium respected. Any effort to unit a bound alteration extracurricular owed process violates the people’s rights.”
“There are wide irregularities, exclusion of stakeholders, and imaginable manipulation. Such injustice cannot stand. Community members person been surviving successful fear, with galore worrying that the situation could destruct homes, farmlands, and businesses.
CDHR called connected the Delta State government, the Attorney-General and the Boundary Committee to enactment rapidly to avert bloodshed, conscionable arsenic they besides called for an autarkic probe into the disputed judgment.
Taiga demanded an contiguous halt to each boundary-related activities pending tribunal resolution. “The radical merit peace, not conflict. We are besides appealing to aggrieved parties to stay calm.
“We besides privation punctual involution by the politician of Delta State, Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori and the Delta State Boundary Committee. All we privation is peaceful and lawful solution to debar unit and safeguard nationalist safety,” helium stated.
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